Tag Archives: Virginia Circuit Courts

A Roanoke City Circuit Court dismisses this petition for a writ of habeas corpus alleging claims of ineffective assistance of counsel related to petitioner’s pleas of nolo contendere to felonious child abuse and neglect and second degree felony murder. Petitioner ...

A Salvadoran citizen who pleaded guilty to misdemeanors of DWI and hit and run wins a hearing on his habeas petition alleging his lawyer provided constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel by failing to advise him he could lose his Temporary ...

Although two plaintiffs suing for defects in new homes bought in 2007 presented nonsuit orders dated Aug. 13, 2013, one of the orders was dated “8-14-2013” by the judge who signed it, and the plaintiff’s claim for breach of contract ...

In ruling on a motion to compel documents in an investigation of a police shooting of an unarmed man in his home in August 2013, a Fairfax Circuit Court says a “criminal investigative file privilege” survives 2014 changes to the ...

A Roanoke City Circuit Court says a habeas corpus petition is not time-barred under Va. Code § 8.01-691, which does not apply to habeas corpus cases. Respondents contend the court cannot consider the merits of this petition because it was ...

In this suit by petitioning landowners against defendant VEPCO, a Hanover County Circuit Court excludes as expert witnesses for petitioners a real estate broker and a real estate appraiser to support petitioners’ claims about the impact of having high-voltage transmission ...

A Hanover County Circuit Court upholds a board of supervisors’ denial of appellant business’s application for an extension of its Conditional Use Permit for a destination commerce sign on its property. To make a prima facie showing that the denial ...

An Albemarle County Circuit Court denies a permanent injunction to plaintiff investment partnership in its action alleging nuisance and trespass claims arising from diversion of stormwater onto plaintiffs’ property from a stormwater management system that includes a 72-inch pipe; given ...

Respondents who are within proximity to property owned and used by The Girl Scout Council have only asserted speculative harms that could arise from eventual construction of a storage facility on GSC property, and the Fairfax Circuit Court says a ...

The Appalachian Regional Community Services, operator of the Buchanan Daycare Center, is supported principally by public funds and is a public body under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act; a Buchanan County Circuit Court says ARCS must produce financial records ...